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[punkdhiver]

Think Outside the Box
Before moving into the dorms my freshman year, I was really apprehensive about having a roommate. In such close quarters, especially for an obsessive-compulsive like me, living with someone in a dorm can easily become a torture one might find in the seventh ring of hell. But since the UCLA roommate survey boasted of its high

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[mypaganpoetry]

I applaud you for showing an amazing amount of patience with the poor guy. It's people like that who are the reason for roommate contracts. And hired hitmen.

My freshman year here in Berkeley, I lived in the LGBT theme program, and my roommate liked to rifle through my things and secretly use my computer to hook up with old men on gay.com. I pretended not to notice and we're still fast friends.

[punkdhiver]

Oh goodness, that would have been the only worse arrangement -- living on such a floor.

Gay guys generally don't make good roommates - I have found them to be noticeably flaky. Unless they have a huge collection of Star Trek episodes, that is.

[mypaganpoetry]

You know, strangely, I find that most people who have a large collection of Buffy Episodes tend to be quite pleasant also.

And once we learned to leave each other alone, save for the occasional grunts to acknowledge one another's exsistence, then theme floor wasn't that unbearable.

[punkdhiver]

I'm just glad grunting is a socially-acceptable form of greeting, because how else would I be polite to people I don't like?

[daromaius]

That's because watching Buffy is the most spiritual experience available, short of a journey to Mecca the mall.

Okay, so my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek there. But only on that last part.